User Manual

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Table Of Contents

Important notes
Features
Contents
Panel description
- Front panel
- Rear panel
Shortcut list
Before you start using the BK5OR
- Connecting the AC adaptor
- Connecting the BK5OR to an amplifier, mixer, etc.
- Connecting a MIDI device
- Connecting the BK5OR to your computer
  - If the computer doesn’t ‘see’ the BK5OR
- Connecting a television set
- Connecting an optional footswitch, hold pedal or expression pedal
- Connecting a portable audio player
- Listening through headphones
- Installing the music rest
- Turning the power on/off
- Demo of the BK5OR
Basic operation of the BK5OR
- About the display and cursor operation
Playing the BK5OR’s real-time parts
- Switching the UP2 and LWR parts on and off
- Selecting Tones for the real-time parts
- Using the ‘Help’ function
Rhythm functions
- Volume balance between the backing and the real-time parts
- About the rhythms
- Using rhythms
- Selecting rhythms
- Playing back rhythms
- Using the ‘One Touch’ function
  - Programming your own ONE TOUCH settings (OneTouch Edit)
- Using oriental tunings
  - Tuning individual notes a quarter tone down
  - Saving and loading your tunings (MEMORY)
Using the BK5OR as a USB player
- Getting ready to use the BK5OR as a USB player
  - File types the BK5OR can read and play back
- Selecting a song or rhythm on a USB memory
- Playing back a song or rhythm from a USB memory
- Renaming or deleting files/folders on a USB memory
  - Delete
- Using the ‘Search’ function to locate songs, rhythms or pictures
- Activating the ‘Play All Songs’ parameter for the USBmemory
  - Deactivating the ‘Play All Songs’ function
- Loop function (MARK A/B)
Other important functions
- Changing the key
- Changing the octave
- Using ‘Track Mute’ and ‘Center Cancel’
  - Selecting the track(s) to mute for rhythms orSMFsongs
- Using the ‘Melody Intell(igence)’ function
- Using Split mode
- Setting the volume of the real-time parts
Performance Lists
- Performance/Music Assistant/ Factory Songs info
- Loading a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’ List
- Recalling a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘FactorySongs’memory
- Quickly locating Performance memories
- Saving your settings as a Performance
- Other Performance List functions
- Editing Performance memories
  - Delete Performance
  - Saving the edited Performance List
Adding pictures to the music
- Displaying photos automatically
  - Enjoying a VIMA TUNES slide show
  - Enjoying a slide show of your own pictures
- Using one of your own pictures as background
Recording your performance as audio data
- Recording
  - Listening to your recording
  - Saving your recording as an audio file
Lock functions
- Switching the locks on and off
Menu options
- General procedure
- Internal Lyrics
  - External Lyrics
- ‘Performance Edit’ parameters
- ‘Global’ parameters
- Mastering Tools
  - Compressor
    - Write User
  - Equalizer
    - Write User
- Makeup Tools (rhythms and SMF)
- Rhythm Composer (programming your own rhythms)
- Editing individual rhythm events (Micro Edit)
- MIDI parameters
- Factory Reset
- Formatting a USB memory
Visual Control function
- Selecting clips and banks on an optional MIDI Visual Control/ VLINK device
Troubleshooting
Specifications
- Style Converter 4 system requirements
MIDI Implementation Chart
Chord Intelligence
Index

Using the BK-5 OR as a USB player

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

The icons to the left of the file names indicate the file

type:

Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select

the file you want to play back or display.

Press the [ENTER/SELECT] button to load the

file.

The [USB MEMORY] button now lights to indicate

that you selected a file on the USB memory.

If the file you need is located inside a folder, you

must first select that folder, press the [ENTER/SELECT]

button to see its contents and then select the file. If

you opened a folder by mistake, press the [EXIT] but-

ton to return to a higher level.

NOTE

Press and hold the [EXIT] button to return to the main

page.

Playing back a song or rhythm from

a USB memory

If you selected a rhythm, see “Playing back rhythms” on

p. 32, because operation is the same as for internal

rhythms.

In the following, we will therefore only show you how to

play back song files located on a USB memory.

NOTE

The BK-5 OR has no internal memory where you could store

SMF or audio files.

Select a song (SMF or audio file) on the USB

memory.

See page 37.

Press the [START/STOP] button to start play-

back.

This button is also labeled [®÷π].

The [®÷π] button’s indicator lights and song playback

starts.

If necessary, you can change the song’s

playback tempo:

•Press the TEMPO [√] or [®] button to decrease or

increase the tempo.

NOTE

If you set a tempo value close to the upper or lower limit

for an mp3 or WAV file, playback may sound a little

strange.

•Press the [TAP TEMPO] button at least three times at

the desired tempo. (This function is not available if

you selected an audio file (WAV or mp3).)

The BK-5 OR calculates the intervals between your

presses and sets the corresponding tempo value.

NOTE

Simultaneously press the TEMPO [√] and [®] buttons

(“STANDARD”) to return to the rhythm’s preset tempo.

Press the [®÷π] button again to pause song

playback.

The [®÷π] button goes dark.

Press [®÷π] yet again to resume playback.

Press the [SYNC START] button (ª) to stop

playback

You can use the following buttons to control song

playback (see the gray legends):

Icon Explanation

STL Rhythm file

SMF SMF file

MP3 Audio mp3 file

WAV Audio WAV file

JPG Picture file

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